[UPDATED] Journatic is caught using fake bylines — and interviews Journatic writer-editor Ryan Smith, who reveals that the company uses fake bylines for its Filipino writers — or did, until “TAL” blew the whistle on them. — Smith tells TAL's Sarah Koenig that “when I ended up looking …

On YouTube, Amateur Is the New Pro — A kid from Nebraska shows up in New York City to make it big. This kid was Bryan Odell, a 21-year-old college dropout who lived with his parents. Gangly, with curly blond hair, he looked and talked­ as if he arrived straight from central casting.

Joe Williams to leave POLITICO — Joe Williams, the POLITICO reporter who was suspended last week for controversial remarks he had made on television and Twitter, will leave his job. — “After some cordial discussions, Joe Williams and I mutually decided that the best step for him is to begin …

Twitter Cuts Off LinkedIn — Who's Next? — Throughout Twitter's infancy, the company had a loose philosophy toward its APIs. In the quest for a user base, developers were welcome to do just about anything they wanted in integrating with Twitter, which often mean creating spinoffs that muddied Twitter's original intended experience.

SCOTUSblog: After a decade, an overnight sensation — Amy Howe used to think 3,000 live blog participants was a lot. Thursday, more than a half-million users tuned into SCOTUSblog to find out how the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on health care and what it meant.

Does the US have a case against Julian Assange? — WASHINGTON — If WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ever ends up in a US courtroom, prosecutors could face an uphill struggle trying to convict him, given America's legal safeguards for publishers, analysts say.

The newsonomics of the News Corp. split — Are two Ruperts even better than one? We may soon find out, as News Corp. moves forward today to clone itself. — The cloning, or splitting, of the $34 billion company certainly has its logic. Hive off those pesky newspaper assets …

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